The Peoria Riverfront Museum is able to teach children about the planets, stars sun and moon . . . on the go. Thanks to a ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

Why haven’t humans colonized other planets yet?  While we dream of expanding across the solar system, there are hidden and ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

The solar system has nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet, making the ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...